Why you can trust our scores and analysis
Understanding your audiences and their evolving habits is critical if you want your communications to change hearts and minds. The Index is backed by Bowen Craggs’ deep knowledge of what visitors want and need.
How it works
- Over 20 years of benchmarking expertise underpins every review
- Consistent judgements rooted in our proprietary methodology
- We monitor trends and constantly amend our thinking and metrics – to help you stay ahead
Visitor-centric approach
- Audience insights are the bedrock of the Index
- Including our analysis of over 1.5 million survey responses from real visitors to corporate websites
- More than half of the Index metrics focus on specific visitor groups
The Index covers eight core areas
1 Construction
Navigation, orientation, digital sustainability and visibility in search and AI tools
2 Message
Use of the home page, social media channels, company information and storytelling to get key messages across
3 Contact
Quality and visibility of contact channels for corporate audiences
4 Serving society
Provisions for expert and concerned stakeholders, including material issues and the company's vision for a better world
5
Serving investors
The service for institutional analysts and private shareholders
6
Serving media
Treatment of news and other resources for journalists, content creators and influencers
7
Serving jobseekers and employees
Effectiveness of jobseeker tools and information and whether employees are supported on the external channels
8
Serving customers
How welcoming and helpful the corporate channels are to customers – an undervalued and important audience on the corporate estate